Hi all, my name is Emma Farrell and I blog over at Clever Classroom. I am so excited because this is my first time blogging here at the Primary Chalkboard and the first time ever on a collaborative blog. I sure am honored to be in such fine company.

I am here to share with you this exciting and very simple classroom management strategy I cooked up. I hope you find it useful.

It's so simple to implement and your students will love it.

You will need:

1 x legos board

Colored lego rectangles or squares

That's it!

If you don't have legos, you could use any other construction toys you have like duplo or wooden blocks (the smaller ones).

Each table group (or any other group) will be allocated a color. If you already use color names for your tables and they don't match your legos, just allocate colors that are close.

When a table is working towards their goal, on task, helpful, display great manners, working in a team, in pairs or whatever your goal, a student places one piece of lego on the board and each time students add the same colored legos to their tower.

The team with the highest legos tower is the winning table/group at the end of the day or week, depending on how you want to implement it.

You can even add half bricks instead of a full brick, depending on what you are rewarding.

It's ideal if you can outline your expectations and social skills at the beginning of the year to revisit them and have them as your success criteria.

You could also create an anchor chart with your students about expectations of tables or table work. Use such frameworks us; students look like, sound like, have.

These ideas are ours. We joyfully share them with you to use in your own classroom, but never to claim as your own in any fashion. They are the intellectual property of each talented blogger represented here.